The current outbreak of COVID-19 underscores the need to study urban growth to understand the spread and control of future epidemics.
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Chocolate plants can absorb cadmium through their roots and store it in chocolate leaves and seeds. Cadmium levels in processed chocolate depending on the production process and the producers.
Smallpox is the only disease to be eradicated through sustained human effort. Many of these volunteers were women who defied social norms to save lives in India.
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It's increasingly difficult to manage diseases in inner cities.
Despite the fact that rare diseases aren’t actually so rare, it appears they suffer from a branding problem in Canada.
Did you ever consider that human beings might have a breeding season? Birth seasonality exists – and has interesting implications for childhood disease outbreaks.
Childhood adversity doesn’t just affect our choices – according to new research, it also weakens the body’s fundamental ability to stay healthy in old age.
When day zero arrives in Cape Town, the routine surveillance systems that monitor disease outbreaks will be enhanced to pick up new diseases.
Why are some animals resistant to waterborne disease? A reader wants to know.
One year after the end of the West African Ebola epidemic, a study of survivors in Guinea shows what has been learned about the deadly virus, and what remains unknown.
A five-year project announced today will implement an innovative water-sensitive approach tailored to informal settlements. The goal is to revitalise 24 communities in Fiji and Indonesia.
The rhetoric of racial purity is full of suggestive terms like illness, weakening and dilution. These imply the medicalisation of the nation.
Africa’s soil crisis calls for quick and creative action. This includes deepening farmers’ knowledge about soil microbes.
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Fellow, Nigerian Academy of Science
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Researcher in Social Epidemiology, University of York
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Distinguished Professor, Division of Family Medicine and Primary Care, Stellenbosch University
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Professor and Head of Infectious Diseases Epidemiology Unit, School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Monash University
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Professor and CEO, Cooperative Research Centre for Water Sensitive Cities
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Professor, University of the Witwatersrand
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Professor and Director of Monash Sustainable Development Institute, Monash University
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Public Health Specialist in the Division of Health Systems and Public Health,, Stellenbosch University
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Associate Professor in Biology, Zoology and Animal Science, Western Sydney University
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Professeur de maladies infectieuses, Inserm, université de Montpellier, Institut de recherche pour le développement (IRD)
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Specialist, CGIAR
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Assistant professor, Département de médecine sociale et préventive, Université Laval
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Research fellow, University of York
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Public Health Registrar in the Division of Public Health Medicine, University of Cape Town
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Associate Professor, Department of Entomology; African-American Studies, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign